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Big Tech, Nostalgia, and Control: Grafton Tanner’s ‘The Circle of the Snake’
By Michael Grasso Source: We Are the Mutants The Circle of the Snake: Nostalgia and Utopia in the Age of Big Tech By Grafton Tanner Zero Books, 2020 I’m sure many members of Generation X have taken a moment to … Continue reading
Posted in Art, consciousness, Consumerism, culture, Dystopia, Economics, Financial Crisis, History, media, Media Literacy, Philosophy, propaganda, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, surveillance state, Technocracy, Technology
Tagged Big Tech, Center for Humane Technology, Consumerism, culture, Dystopia, Economics, financial crisis, Google, Grafton Tanner, media, nostalgia, Philosophy, propaganda, Radical nostalgia, society, Technocracy, technology, The Circle of the Snake, Tristan Harris, Utopia
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Generation Numb: How Losing My Phone Exposed Me to the Pain of My Peers
This terrible void of which everyone stays pleasantly unobservant is the unofficial sickness of Gen Z. By Ben Scheer Source: ScheerPost I hadn’t planned to give up my smartphone. After all, I was starting my sophomore year of college and … Continue reading
Posted in conditioning, consciousness, Consumerism, culture, Dystopia, education, media, Media Literacy, Philosophy, Psychology, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, Spirituality, Technocracy, Technology
Tagged Alienation, Anxiety, Awareness, Consciousness, Consumerism, culture, Distraction, Dystopia, Education, Internet, media media literacy, Mindfulness, Philosophy, psychology, Smartphones, Social Media, society, Sociology, Technocracy, technology
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THE RISE OF THE CYBORGIAN CONSUMER
By Elva Thompson Source: Waking Times “You don’t take over the world with gaudy displays of violence. Real control is surgical, and invisible.” ~ John Greer – Person of Interest, Season 4, Episode: YHVH The Posthuman (or Transhuman) Movement was formally … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, Consumerism, culture, Science, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, surveillance state, Technocracy, Technology
Tagged apophasis, Chaos, Consumerism, Cybernetics, Cyborgs, Information, Nick Bostrom, Posthumanism, Stephen Brown, Technocracy, technology, Transhumanism
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The “New Normal” Is De-Normalization
By Charles Hugh Smith Source: Of Two Minds Here’s what denormalization means: there was no “New Normal” for the dinosaurs. Everyone talks about the “New Normal,” as if there’s a guarantee that life will return to normal. But the “New Normal” is De-Normalization, which … Continue reading
Posted in conditioning, Consumerism, culture, Dystopia, Economics, Financial Crisis, news, Oligarchy, Psy-ops, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime
Tagged Consumerism, coronavirus, Covid-19, De-Normalization, economic crisis, Economics, Extinction, Financial Collapse, New Normal, Pandemic, Sports, travel
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This Is a Financial Extinction Event
By Charles Hugh Smith Source: Of Two Minds The lower reaches of the financial food chain are already dying, and every entity that depended on that layer is doomed. Though under pressure from climate change, the dinosaurs were still dominant … Continue reading
Posted in culture, Economics, Financial Crisis, Inequality, news, Oligarchy, Recession, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology
Tagged bankruptcies, central banks, consumer spending, Consumerism, coronavirus, Covid-19, defaults, Economic Collapse, Economics, financial crisis, Global Economy, unemployment
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Contemplating Human Extinction Terrifies Most People: A Strategy for Survival
By Robert J. Burrowes Any serious study of the relevant scholarly literature reveals at least four possible paths to imminent human extinction, that is, human extinction within five years: nuclear war, the climate catastrophe, the deployment of 5G and biodiversity … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, conditioning, corporate news, culture, elites, Health, Philosophy, Psychology, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology
Tagged 5G, conditioning, Consumerism, coronavirus, corporate media, Covid-19, Education, Emotions, Global Elite, Human Extinction, Non-Violence, obedience, Philosophy, psychology, Socialization, Sociology, Violence
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The Final Act
By Dmitry Orlov Source: Club Orlov In processing the flow of information about the goings on in the US, it is impossible to get rid of a most unsettling sense of unreality—of a population trapped in a dark cave filled … Continue reading
Posted in corporate news, culture, Economics, Empire, Financial Crisis, Geopolitics, media, Oligarchy, Recession, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology
Tagged addiction, china, Consumerism, corporate media, Debt, Donald Trump, Economic Collapse, Economics, empire, financial crisis, geopolitics, Impeachment, imperialism, Trade War, US Treasury
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